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Barron's Bounce: Tesla Shares Take a Hit
After a Barron's story questioning the hot carmaker's valuation, shares fell. Also: Loral and Foot Locker moving higher.
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Lower Cost Variant of Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 Targets Price Sensitive Consumer Products
Feb 20, 2013, 02:00 ET
OSLO, Norway, Feb. 20, 2013 /CNW/ - Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSE: NOD) today announces the immediate availability of a lower cost variant of its award-winning nRF51822 Bluetooth® low energy and proprietary 2.4GHz SoC (System-on-Chip) that will offer an identical feature, peripherals, and performance set but half the Flash memory at 128kB (instead of 256kB).
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130220/594922 )
The nRF51822 (128kB) also offers pin-to-pin compatibility with the existing nRF51822 (256kB) and so could serve as a drop-in replacement for any existing nRF51822-based designs that could operate with half the Flash memory, allowing smooth and seamless migration without any engineering risk or re-qualification requirements with relevant regulatory bodies such as the FCC and EU.
This means it will offer the same industry-first multiprotocol radio and a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 based processor optimized for ultra low power wireless applications and deliver -92.5dB RX sensitivity in Bluetooth low energy mode; up to +4dBm output power in all modes; up to 9.5dBm improvement in link budget compared to previous generations of class-leading Nordic chips, and sub-10mA peak currents running off a 3V coin cell battery for months or years of battery life (depending on the application). As with the existing nRF51822, this new nRF51822 128kB variant will also be 100 percent on air compatible with Nordic's existing nRF24L series ICs ('integrated circuits' or 'chips').
This new part will complement Nordic's existing nRF51822 (256kB) Flash SoC by targeting the most price sensitive ULP wireless applications that are typically high volume consumer products such as entry-level PC mice and keyboards, smartphone accessories, and toys.
"The nRF51822 (128kB) Flash memory variant was developed to meet market demand for an nRF51 Series SoC that could target the most price sensitive consumer product applications where Bill of Material considerations are of paramount importance," explains Geir Langeland, Nordic Semiconductor's Director of Sales & Marketing. "It now means that the maximum range of products can benefit from the technically superior performance and design advantages of the nRF51 Series while still being able to compete successfully in even the lower cost segments of the consumer electronics market."
SOURCE: Nordic Semiconductor
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Steven Keeping email: [email protected] tel: + 61-403810827

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BERLIN (By Mark Hosenball) - All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting.
Like their forerunner, the fledgling whistle-blowing sites are a chaotic mixture of complex systems engineering, earnest campaigning, muckraking and self-promotion.
And though their goals are varied, the activists behind the sites told Reuters that they share one major concern: they all vow not to repeat mistakes they believe were made by Julian Assange, the controversial WikiLeaks creator.
The proliferation of websites to encourage, facilitate and shelter leakers is so anarchic that two aspiring anti-corporate leak sites are both claiming rights to the rubric "GreenLeaks" and muttering about legal consequences if the other side doesn't back down.
The most closely watched rollout in the leak-hosting world was the launch on Thursday of OpenLeaks.org, a site whose principal creator, German transparency activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg, was once Assange's closest collaborator.
Domscheit-Berg, who used the pseudonym "Daniel Schmitt" as Assange's official WikiLeaks co-spokesman, says he doesn't believe, as Assange initially did, that confidential material should just be dumped on the Internet. The bare-bones mission statement posted on OpenLeaks describes Domscheit-Berg's vision as both a safe-deposit box and a social networking site for leakers and their consumers.
Other WikiLeaks copycats, spinoffs and wannabes are germinating: activists say they have learned of recent launches of leak-accepting websites focused on specialized topics or regions -- from Russia and the European Union bureaucracy to international trade and the pharmaceutical industry.
Major news organizations are also moving to establish web-based mechanisms for receiving leaks directly, such as electronic "drop boxes" which would enable leakers to feed the media outlets directly, cutting out middlemen like Assange.
The most ambitious and potentially far-reaching WikiLeaks spinoff to surface this week is Domscheit-Berg's OpenLeaks, which its founder describes as a mechanism both for putting together leakers with knowledgeable recipients and for linking leak-consuming organizations to each other.
The burgeoning Wikiworld has been eagerly anticipating Domscheit-Berg's next project since his falling out with Assange last year. The two became estranged following an e-mail exchange in which Assange summarily suspended Domscheit-Berg as WikiLeaks co-spokesman for allegedly leaking information to the media about growing concern among other WikiLeaks activists about Assange's private life.
Domscheit-Berg subsequently quit WikiLeaks, denouncing Assange for "acting like an emperor or slave trader." He took with him other more shadowy figures who had been important collaborators with Assange in creating key elements of WikiLeaks' leak-handling systems architecture.
One of the defectors was a programer known to most insiders simply as "The Architect." Described by colleagues as at least as brilliant at programing as Assange, The Architect was the principal designer of the systems WikiLeaks used to produce Assange's greatest public triumphs last year, the distribution of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government reports.
In a conversation with Reuters on Thursday from Davos, Switzerland, where he appeared on a World Economic Forum panel devoted to "Confidentiality and Transparency," Domscheit-Berg said his WikiLeaks experience had convinced him of the wrongness of Assange's view that the website should publish raw information and let others sort through it. (Assange's approach subsequently appears to have matured, as demonstrated by WikiLeaks current snail-like release of its cache of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables.)
Domscheit-Berg said WikiLeaks taught him that huge efforts have to be made to authenticate, analyze, filter and if necessary redact leaked secret documents before making them public. He said that WikiLeaks also demonstrated that a top-down group like WikiLeaks, which Assange by his own account rules like something of an absolute monarch, might not be the best model to undertake painstaking pre-publication reviews of complex, and potentially damaging, data.
He said his concept is to create a new network through which leakers of any kind -- government, corporate, environmental, whatever -- could make confidential submissions to groups that could make use of them. OpenLeaks itself would not evaluate, let alone publicly release, the information. Instead it would convey it from leaker to leakee.
The plan is to create a central web architecture for moving confidential documents from leaker to recipients, and then recruit organizations from the media, NGO world and labor movement, to become partners in the network he is creating.
With his system -- which is still being put together, and which, according to some activist sources, has had to postpone its launch date more than once -- would-be leakers could anonymously approach OpenLeaks to be connected with a group of OpenLeaks partners who would have the resources and expertise to process their data properly, or with a single leak recipient.
Leakers wanting to connect with a single recipient, such as a specific media outlet, would be able to. But Domscheit-Berg says that in most cases OpenLeaks' practice would be that the individual media organization receiving a leak would have only a limited embargo period, usually a few weeks, to analyze the material and decide how or whether to use it.
After that, the leaked material would be shared with all partners in the OpenLeaks project. Domscheit-Berg says this system is designed both to provide leaks exposure to a wider circle of potential expertise and publicity and also to encourage partners to share more information among themselves.
"We're trying to be a gatekeeper but actually enabling everyone else," Domscheit-Berg said. If a leaker wanted the material never to be shared beyond a single initial recipient, he said, that could be arranged.
Domscheit-Berg said that at some point he hoped to establish a foundation to help raise funds for not just OpenLeaks operations but also research legal and political issues related to transparency and disclosure.
He said none of the partners joining the OpenLeaks network would be asked to make any direct financial contribution, and that OpenLeaks would not generate revenue by brokering information. Instead, he said, OpenLeaks will suggest that potential partners with large servers contribute computer time or space to help build the network.
Some internet activists and journalists who heard details of Domscheit-Berg's scheme before its official launch are already raising questions. They wonder whether the plan is too complicated and how the system will fulfill promises to leakers that their material will only be shared with limited recipients if that's what the leaker wants.
Domscheit-Berg said that leakers and partners would have to operate on a measure of "trust." He declined to discuss the role "The Architect" or other activists would play in crafting OpenLeaks' technical infrastructure, other than to acknowledge that some of his new site's "technical people ... were with WikiLeaks."
Of more immediate interest to oil, mining and other natural resources industries might be the launch of two websites which say they intend to become conduits for corporate insiders wanting to blow the whistle on environmental abuses.
But the race to set up environmentally-oriented websites under the rubric "GreenLeaks" became slightly toxic earlier this week when groups of activists in Denmark and Germany, who say they have been working independently for months on creating infrastructures in cyberspace and assembling networks of lawyers and experts to process leaks, learned of each others' existence.
The rival groups were not pleased to discover they had become involved in a competition. Representatives of both groups say they are willing to discuss their visions with each other. But each side is also assessing possible legal moves. The leader of one of the groups told Reuters that his lawyers may file legal papers challenging his rivals' activities before the end of this week.
The creators of both "GreenLeaks" websites each say they came up with the idea independently and have already expended considerable energy working on both legal and technical aspects of their sites. As the rival sites' founders describe them, each site has its own quirks and merits, which in theory could complement each other. But for now, the two sites are glowering at each other, hoping their antagonist will blink first.
A group based in Denmark has registered the Internet domain name "GreenLeaks.org" and said it has applied to trademark it as well. Based in Copenhagen, the group is led by Internet advertising executive Mads Bjerg and backed by his boss Jacob Hagemann, head of Searcus, a Copenhagen ad agency that specializes in crafting ads linked to internet searches.
Bjerg's project has been endorsed by Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Parliament in Iceland who was once a close collaborator with WikiLeaks and Assange. (After Swedish authorities opened a sexual misconduct investigation against him, Jonsdottir fell out with Assange and denounced him.)
Bjerg has also been in contact with OpenLeaks via one of Domscheit-Berg's collaborators, an Icelandic former WikiLeaks volunteer named Herbert Snorrason who uses the OpenLeaks handle "Odin".
In two days of interviews with Reuters at restaurants, lawyers' offices and the houseboat where he lives, Bjerg said he had recruited a group of prominent Danish lawyers, journalists and activists to help him build GreenLeaks.
He said he already had an idea about landing a big leak -- though he wouldn't say what it was -- and said that other supporters of his project included an unidentified former official of a European intelligence service, who would help his site with security issues.
Bjerg said that on January 17 he launched a homepage with a "GreenLeaks.org" logo (and little, if anything, else) and added: "Money is not an obstacle right now." He declined to identify how much financial support his site had or where it came from. He said at the moment volunteers were offering help.
His ambition for the site is expansive. "We want to be the authority when it comes to leaks about nature, the climate and the environment ... The voice of the Earth ... Counterintelligence agency for the Earth, you could say."
Bjerg said journalists and activist groups -- including the Nordic branch of Greenpeace -- have already pledged support to GreenLeaks.org. DanWatch, a non-profit investigative journalism group which gets funding from both the Danish Government and the European Union, has also affiliated itself with Bjerg's website.
Anne Skjerning, DanWatch's director, said that her group, which specializes in corporate exposes, had "a hard time getting information on companies because it's confidential." She said that a GreenLeaks website "would be a big help for us" as a conduit through which anonymous leakers could supply inside information.
Bjerg said that Thorkild Hoyer, a prominent Copenhagen lawyer who specializes in human rights, has agreed to serve as one of the group's spokespeople. But responsibility will be shared among activists and supporters, and there will be no cults of personality. "We do not want this organization to be led by one person," Bjerg said. "As we saw with WikiLeaks, certain things can work against an organization if the initial financier is also the early programer and chief editor."
The competitor to Bjerg's GreenLeaks.org is being put together by Scott Millwood, an Australian documentary film-maker based in Germany.
Over lunch in a Berlin sushi bar, Millwood told Reuters his group acquired the domain name GreenLeaks in 36 countries where it also has registered GreenLeaks internet addresses under the ".com" and ".biz" designators. Millwood said he also has applied to the European Union to register "GreenLeaks" as a trademark, but recently learned that Bjerg's Denmark-based group had made a similar move within days of Millwood making his own application.
Millwood acknowledged that there was "one inactive domain name that we don't own" -- Bjerg's URL, "GreenLeaks.org." By the same token he said, one of the URLs Millwood says he registered himself is "GreenLeaks.dk" -- a domain name specifically related to Denmark. Millwood acknowledged the rivalry between the two groups could escalate into a "legal dispute."
His GreenLeaks.com will be organizationally similar to the original WikiLeaks -- in that Millwood will be chief editor and principal spokesman. "I'm the public face and the editor. It's important our organization has a responsible editor. We're a news organization with a responsible editor. We're not clandestine. We won't be faceless or placeless."
Millwood nonetheless did not identify other collaborators in his website, other than to say that they included people located in several countries with backgrounds in environmental activism, information technology, social media and the law.
He said that despite his plan to be his website's public face, his philosophy of handling leaks is markedly different from the one pursued by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. "He believed that he had a duty to history to put everything in the public sphere; information for its own sake," Millwood said. "That's not our philosophy. If we release information we want it to have a specific purpose."
To this end, Millwood, who produced documentaries about alleged environmental abuse in his native Tasmania, says that one of his main objectives will be to take leaked information and popularize it -- for example through reporting out stories or crafting graphics. Like his rival GreenLeaks and OpenLeaks, Millwood talks of enlisting partners or eventually setting up a network of regional GreenLeaks sites.
For the moment, however, Millwood's Greenleaks.com site, which he managed to launch a few days before his Danish rivals ".org" site went live, is skeletal. He acknowledged he is "still developing the infrastructure" for a site which can receive and process confidential leaks.
At least one other website channeling purported insider disclosures on green issues, called EnviroLeaks.org, is also up and running, though much of its initial fare consisted of re-posting State Department cables already released by WikiLeaks. More original -- and arcane -- are recent launches such as balkanLeaks.eu and brusselsleaks.com, which deal, respectively, with scandals in countries like Bulgaria and in the European Union bureaucracy. (BalkanLeaks' content appears to be mainly a one-page manifesto.)
Meanwhile, one prominent media outlet which has had a productive, though tempestuous relationship with Assange and the original WikiLeaks, is brainstorming whether it might be possible to cut out the middleman entirely and establish a secure channel for leakers to feed stuff to it directly.
The New York Times, which is publishing an e-book on its dealings with WikiLeaks and also has posted a lengthy account by Executive Editor Bill Keller of his turbulent dealings with Assange, is examining whether it could set up its own Internet conduit for secure leaking.
"Yes, a few people in our computer-assisted reporting and interactive news units are looking at setting up a drop box of some kind," Keller told Reuters in an e-mail. "I've taken to calling it an EZ Pass lane for whistleblowers."
Keller noted that there are "some technical, legal and journalistic issues to work through" and added: "Nothing decided yet, but I'm intrigued." (Editing by Jim Impoco and Claudia Parsons)
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CARTHAGE, Texas (AP) — A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie is a free man after a judge agreed to reduce his life sentence and release him on bond.
Bernie Tiede's freedom Tuesday was part of an agreement with the same district attorney who prosecuted him for the death of his 81-year-old longtime companion, Marjorie Nugent, who disappeared in 1996 and was found dead in a freezer in Carthage nine months later.
Tiede's bond was set at $10,000 and after posting bail, he was released to go live in Austin with filmmaker Richard Linklater, who co-wrote and directed the 2011 dark comedy "Bernie" that was inspired by the case and starred Jack Black in the title role and Shirley MacLaine as Nugent. Linklater volunteered to take in Tiede, who will be under strict bond conditions.
A state criminal appeals court still must formally sign off on the sentence reduction.
The now-55-year-old Tiede, who was well liked in the close-knit community of Carthage, was convicted in 1999 in the death of Nugent, who had a reputation among townspeople as a crotchety cheapskate.
Panola County District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson agreed with Tiede's appeals attorney, Jodi Cole, who said he deserved a lighter sentence because he was sexually assaulted as a child and also had an abusive relationship with Nugent before her death.
Psychiatrist Edward Gripon, who examined Tiede in January, testified Tuesday that Tiede and Nugent had a complex and abusive relationship. He said that combined with Tiede having been abused when he was younger pushed him to kill Nugent in a "brief dissociative episode."
"He doesn't come across in examination at all as a person prone to violence," he said. "That set of circumstances … is not going to recreate itself."
Nugent's granddaughter, Dallas-area lawyer Shanna Nugent, said her family "is pretty much in shock" over the development.
"I really wanted justice for Nanny," she said, using a pet name for her grandmother. "This doesn't really feel like justice."
Davidson, who said he believes residents' opinion of Tiede has changed "180 degrees," called Tiede's release "bittersweet." He said he had a duty, however, to act once it was clear other factors had led Tiede to kill.
Tiede still faces a theft charge for spending Nugent's money after her death, but Davidson said nothing will move forward on that until the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals approves the sentence reduction in the slaying case. No timetable has been set for when the court might act.
Nugent's corpse was found at her Carthage home nine months after her 1996 disappearance, wrapped in a sheet inside a freezer among packages of frozen corn, pecans and meat. She had been shot in the back four times with a .22-caliber rifle.
Tiede had met Nugent in 1990 at the funeral of her husband R.L. "Rod" Nugent, who had made his fortune in oil and banking. The two would grow close, taking trips around the world, and Nugent signed a will leaving her estimated $10 million fortune to Tiede.
Tiede became known for his generosity around the town, which is about 150 miles east of Dallas. Townspeople have said he started scholarships, pledged money to a church building campaign and ran a fundraising drive for Boy Scouts. He also gave away large gifts, including several cars.
After Tiede was charged in Nugent's killing, pretrial publicity led to the case being moved to San Augustine, about 50 miles southeast of Carthage. A jury there convicted him in 1999 and sentenced him to life in prison.
Associated Press writer Terry Wallace contributed to this report.
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The once-great Jamestown High girls tennis dynasty has returned to the summit.
The Eagles, displaying considerable poise throughout the lineup, defeated Western Albemarle 5-3 Saturday at Virginia Tech for the final state Group AA championship in a match that took about 3 1/2 hours.
Seniors Elizabeth Wallace and Kathy Sharp took the clinching match 6-1, 6-0 at No. 2 doubles to set off a celebration on the Hokies' maroon-and-orange indoor courts.
Jamestown, which won six titles in a seven-year span from 2000-06, hadn't been to the championship match since 2008 despite being competitive every year. The Eagles had seen their season end in the state semifinals the previous four seasons.
But this team was different, capturing the Eagles' first title in seven years and proving to be Karen Johnson's best in her five years as coach. Even when sister standouts Leah Walter and Anna Walter couldn't dominate like they had in the Bay Rivers District, the lower starters came through.
That was the case again Saturday in Blacksburg.
Johnson said the year's turning point came April 15, which she called the exact midpoint of the regular season. The Eagles were 3-3, with 6-3 and 5-4 defeats to quality Group AAA teams and a 5-4 loss in Lynchburg at E.C. Glass.
"We had a 'come to Jesus' meeting," Johnson said. "I told them, 'You shouldn't be happy with these 5-4 losses. Because they're so close, they could've been wins.' I challenged them. 'If you want this to happen, you better do something to make it happen.' "
That day, Johnson said, "It was a really good practice. I told them I didn't do anything different -- the difference is that you guys put the effort and the focus in after our talk. They were hungry enough to buy into it. They were really motivated ... wanting the outcome to be different this year."
It was. The Eagles went 15-0 the rest of the way, and Western was the only squad to register three team points on them.
Among the post-talk triumphs were a 5-0 whitewashing at Eastern View in the Region I final, a 5-2 state quarterfinal victory against a Handley team with an outstanding duo atop the lineup, and a 5-0 semifinal triumph over a Hidden Valley program that took the 2010 and '11 championships.
After their breakthrough semifinal win, Johnson said, "We tried to let them know: Don't just be satisfied with just being here. No, that's not the goal."
Western Albemarle won its semifinal 5-2 over E.C. Glass, but the refocused Eagles never relinquished command.
Jamestown took command of Saturday's match at 4-2 with singles victories by freshman Anna Walter at line 2, Wallace at 3, Sharp at 4 and Katie Hunt at 6. That put the Warriors in a huge hole, though left-hander Emily Kochard beat senior Leah Walter 6-1, 6-2 at No. 1 in a matchup of regional singles champs – a similar result to their singles semifinal two days before – and Western's Fran Clifton defeated Sarah Reso 6-3, 6-1 on line 5.
Western won the No. 3 doubles match to cut its deficit to 4-3, but Wallace and Sharp never were threatened. Meanwhile, the Walter sisters were leading 7-6 (7-5), 6-5 when the Eagles clinched the crown.
"There was a lot of joy on the court," Johnson said, "the joy of the moment of reaching what they had worked for."
After the team match, Leah and Anna Walter played an anticlimactic Group AA doubles final, losing 6-2, 6-2 as Jessie Nolan and Kathryn Bock of Winchester's Handley High repeated as champs.
Those tandems faced each other Tuesday and were at 4-all in the first set when the match was abandoned, thanks to a triumph by Wallace and Sharp that gave the Eagles an insurmountable lead against the Judges.
In singles, though, Nolan beat Leah Walter and Bock defeated Anna, both in straight sets. That was a harbinger of Saturday's result.
Singles: Emily Kochard (WA) d. Leah Walter 6-1, 6-2; Anna Walter (J) d. Maddy Ix 6-1, 6-2; Elizabeth Wallace (J) d. Lauren Kearns 6-0, 6-0; Kathy Sharp (J) d. Claire Park 7-5, 6-1; Fran Clifton (WA) d. Sarah Reso 6-3, 6-1; Katie Hunt (J) d. Stephanie Barton 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles: Walter-Walter (J) led Kochard-Ix 7-6 (7-5), 6-5, did not finish; Wallace-Sharp (J) d. Clifton-Park 6-1, 6-0; Barton-Gupton (WA) d. Hunt-Kristin Lilley 6-4, 6-2.


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In the clothing industry it's common to mix natural and synthetic fibers. Take cotton and add polyester to make clothing that is soft, breathable and wrinkle free.
Now researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are using the same principle for biomedical applications.
They created a new hybrid fiber which combines the biologically favorable qualities of the natural material chitosan with the mechanical strength of the synthetic polymer.
"The new material showed promise for nerve guides but would also work well for wound dressings, heart grafts, tendons, ligament, cartilage, muscle repair and other biomedical applications", Miqin Zhang, a UW professor of material science and engineering said.
Today's commercial nerve guides are made from collagen, a structural protein derived from animal cells. But collagen is expensive, the protein tends to trigger an immune response and the material is weak in wet environments, such as those inside the body.
Zhang and colleagues developed an alternative. The first component of their material, polycaprolactone, is a strong, flexible, biodegradable polyester commonly used in sutures. It is not suitable on its own for use as a nerve guide because water-based cells don't like to grow on the polyester's water-repelling surface.
The second component, chitosan, is biodegradable and biocompatible, meaning that it won't trigger an immune response. Chitosan has a rough surface similar to the surfaces found inside the body that cells can attach to. The problem is chitosan swells in water, making it weak in wet environments.
Researchers combined the fibers at the nanometer scale by first using a technique called electrospinning to draw the materials into nanometer-scale fibers, and then weaving the fibers together. The resulting material has a texture similar to that of the nanosized fibers of the connective tissue which surrounds human cells.
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- The TSA completes an eight-month investigation into bribery allegations
- It says a training instructor accepted payment from test-takers to ensure they passed
- Ten employees were suspended; three of those have resigned
Seven Transportation Security Administration employees at Philadelphia International Airport face losing their jobs after an eight-month internal investigation into an alleged bribery scandal, the agency announced Friday.
The agency said it removed 10 employees from security duties last November pending the results of the investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.
"Since that time, three of the employees involved have resigned from TSA and seven others have been notified of TSA's proposed action to terminate their employment," the agency said in a release.
According to the release, "a training instructor responsible for administering annual proficiency exams was found to have accepted payment from TSA security officers to ensure passing grades."
The training instructor pleaded guilty in February to a charge of bribery, the agency said.
"Any employee who willfully violates TSA rules will be held accountable for their conduct and appropriately disciplined," said Chris McLaughlin, the agency's assistant administrator.
This latest incident comes two weeks after 43 Transportation Security Administration workers in Florida were disciplined for not performing additional screening on random carry-on bags and passengers.
Last month, after a series of breaches at Newark Airport, a Homeland Security inspector general report found the agency is failing to adequately report, track and fix security breaches at airports. The agency responded to those incidents with "corrective action," according to the inspector general, but not all the problems received the same treatment.
"There's a TSA disaster every week, and the security meltdown gets more and more outrageous," said Rep. John Mica, R-Florida, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, in a release put out by his office on Friday.
Mica, who has repeatedly called for privatizing Transportation Security Administration, said reforms "can't come soon enough." He added that hundreds of U.S. airports "still operate under the Soviet-style all-federal screening model."
The Transportation Security Administration said that upon learning about the bribery allegations in Philadelphia, it notified the inspector general and worked closely with law enforcement during the investigation.


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In a holiday nightmare, one woman learned the hard way that buying pets online is never a safe bet, no matter how carefully a seller is vetted.
North Dakota resident Marlene Partlow, who purchased a teacup Chihuahua puppy for $350 via PayPal, told the Jamestown (N.D.) Sun that she examined purported seller Thalia Hernandez's Facebook page and saw that she had a verified PayPal account before sending payment.
But when Partlow went to the airport to pick up her kids' new dog, which was flying in from California, airport officials in Fargo, N.D., told her that no such animal had arrived.
"I immediately just started crying," once she realized she'd been scammed, Partlow told the Sun.
Partlow said she had been successfully purchasing goods online without incident for more than a decade. [ Retailers Worry About PayPal Security. Should You? ]
After Partlow left the airport, she tried to phone Hernandez, but within 30 minutes of the call, Hernandez's phone was disconnected, the Sun reported. Hernandez's Facebook page was taken down soon afterward.
Partlow said there was only one sketchy detail about the pre-delivery arrangements: Hernandez said her PayPal account wasn't working and asked Partlow to send payment through the less secure Western Union wire service instead.
But when Partlow refused, Hernandez agreed to accept the PayPal payment.
Partlow said she has since filed a complaint with PayPal in an attempt to recoup her money, but if Hernandez's account is empty, that's unlikely to occur.
Partlow said she also left a message with local law enforcement in the California town where Hernandez said she lived.
Partlow also told the Sun that ads with the same photos of the same dogs are being circulated online, with new contact information.
"It's unbelievable that there are people like that in this world. I guess we're naive living here," Partlow said. "You think everybody's good and they're not."
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New Zealand has a rich and fascinating history, reflecting our unique mix of Māori and European culture.
Māori were the first to arrive in New Zealand, journeying in canoes from Hawaiki about 1,000 years ago. A Dutchman, Abel Tasman, was the first European to sight the country but it was the British who made New Zealand part of their empire.
In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, an agreement between the British Crown and Maori. It established British law in New Zealand and is considered New Zealand's founding document and an important part of the country's history. The building where the treaty was signed has been preserved and, today, the Waitangi Treaty Grounds are a popular attraction.
You'll find amazing Māori historic sites and taonga (treasures) - as well as beautiful colonial-era buildings - dotted throughout the country. A walk around any New Zealand city today shows what a culturally diverse and fascinating country we have become.


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OHIO -- Plans to ban hoodies from GlenOak High School remain on hold as school officials plan to discuss the issue with students this week.
Plans to ban hoodies from GlenOak High School remain on hold as school officials plan to discuss the issue with students this week. Last Wednesday, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday break, students were told they no longer would be allowed to wear zip-up hoodies during classes. Hoodies are hooded sweat shirts and some types zip similar to coats. Plain Local students aren't allowed to wear coats during classes, so GlenOak officials planned to ban wearing the zip-up hoodies. The announced ban took students by surprise. They reacted, planning a protest and sending petitions through cyberspace. The reaction took school officials by surprise. They opted to delay action, then talk with students and parents. "We just really need to have some conversation about it," Superintendent Chris Smith said Tuesday. "We'll work through this." Students unhappy about the proposed ban did go through with their protest, wearing hoodies to school when classes resumed Tuesday. Renee Starn, who with her twin sister Natalie helped organize the protest, estimated that half of GlenOak's students wore hoodies Tuesday. "It was definitely more zip-ups today," she said. Starn figured that more students wore hoodies than would on an average day. Since temperatures have started to drop, more students have been donning blue jeans and hoodies when they come to school, she said. Students were told Tuesday not to wear hoodies that had fur around the hood, or hoodies similar to a windbreaker, Starn said. Sweat shirts or hoodies made from fleece -- including zip-up hoodies -- still are OK. Not wearing coats to class has been a rule for years, and students understand, Starn said. But for some students, hoodies have become their coat. Smith said the administration has board approval to address school dress codes. "We make decisions every day telling kids that's an appropriate thing to wear, that's not an appropriate thing to wear," he said. Reach Canton Repository writer Edd Pritchard at (330) 580-8484 or email@example.com.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Patient quote of the day
11 comments:
at least they take all their medications
They are really in trouble if they say "I take all my medications once a day, except when I forget"
- February 11, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- Nancy said...
Me, too!
- February 11, 2010 at 10:15 PM
I wonder if they meant the meds get dumped in the palm of the hand and tossed down the gullet all at once, except when they do it again later in the same day.
- February 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- Katie Axelson said...
Her senior year in college I had a friend tell me, "All of the people in my class are freshmen except the sophomores and juniors."
Sometimes things sound so much better before they come out...
<>< Katie
- February 11, 2010 at 11:26 PM
- terri c said...
Nice and clear as long as they remember which ones are which.
- February 11, 2010 at 11:46 PM
- Kimbra Kasch said...
Kinda like, "I love my husband - except when I don't."
- February 12, 2010 at 12:36 AM
- student dr. blaze said...
oh, no, it's far worse when they say they take them all except when they accidentally feed them to the family pet. ;-)
- February 12, 2010 at 2:30 AM
- Ellie said...
God, i hate stupid people. Don't you just want to taser them sometimes?
- February 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- ERP said...
"2 thou shall not count, excepting then to proceedeth to 3!"
- February 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Hey Dr Grumpy -love the blog . Just wonder which Dr grumpy you are, I know so many, kinda likeSanta. I'm home health nurse - I could trump your stories by posting actual pics of homes these folks live in. No words to describe! The fun never ends! Keep calm and carry on .
- February 12, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- Maha said...
Well obviously! :P
Though perhaps in the patient's defense, English wasn't their first language? Too many of my patients end up saying funny stuff inadvertently and then I feel like an ass for laughing!
- February 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM


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Today marked the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, and Maria Sharapova continues to try and bring awareness to the lives of those forced to flee the contaminated region and the heroism of the emergency workers who responded to the situation. (Read: Maria's message.)
Meanwhile, she's done lots leading up to today, teaming up with Nike earlier this year to create a tee (pictured above), and she's beefed up a special section on her website to highlight the cause and her work as a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador.
More: "In Ukraine, Scars Of Chernobyl Disaster Remain Raw," Morning Edition. Listen: Audio version
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After I posted last night, I started thinking. I guess that small amount of writing kind of got my creative energy going and I began to think about a little boy named Frankie and his Mom that I met a few years ago here in Rogers Park. I wish I could remember his Mom's name, but I can't. I think their story is kind of compelling and it really tells you alot about our neighborhood and the kinds of things one can encounter living in a big integrated city. Some of these things make it hard to have a heart sometimes.
I first met Frankie back in summer 2001 when I was first dating Steve and bringing Mojo around to Steve's house. We'd take Mojo out for walks and would bump into Frankie and his Mom around the neighborhood. Frankie at that time was about 8 years old and he loved Mojo. He always wanted to stop and pet him and Mojo was of course, a glutton for punishment with him. He sat perfectly right in front of Frankie, with his perfect little dachshund body and looked up at him with his warm brown eyes glinting and saying, "all is well and as it should be."
Frankie looked like he'd like to have a dog like Mojo, and Frankie's Mom always acted happy and upbeat when we saw her, but I, being sensitive to sadness myself, often saw a tinge of it in her eyes.
After I moved in with Steve, I started to see them more often of course. I recall one time I was heading for the "L" in the morning going downtown to work and she stopped me (she was without Frankie) and asked me for a dollar. I obliged and then she asked me if I knew anyone who needed a nanny. I, having only a few friends mostly without children, wouldn't be a good referral source for a nanny- but of course, one never knows. I gathered that she was unemployed at the moment and I told her if I thought of anyone, I'd mention it.
She and Frankie were always well dressed whenever you saw them, but I know from experience that you can dress pretty well shopping in thrift stores if you are saavy enough and have some taste. She definitely had a sense of style, wearing a beret stylishly in cooler weather and cute fleece jackets on her and Frankie in bright colors. They way she walked around Morse, so friendly and with her nice leather jacket, beret, pretty face, she was quite an attractive figure. Something about the way she wore her hat reminded me of "The Little Rascals," and she had a kind of playful demeaner as well.
But what always impressed Steve and I was how nice her son Frankie was. He was a really sweet kid- exceptionally polite also, and I have to tell you that alot of the kids around here, even at the tender age of 8 are not exactly what you'd describe as sweet and polite. I walk to my job in the neighborhood at the same time kids are walking to school, and I walk past about three schools. Some of the kids seem nice, but there's a group that is already cursing and "motherfuckering" by the age of 8! These sweet little faces and they already sound like gangbangers. It's pretty sad. Frankie was definitely a momma's boy, very close to his Mom and we thought she must be a good Mom to have such a lovely son.
Then we'd see her and Frankie at the park by the lake, the sanctuary which draws all Rogers Parkers with any sense to it during the warm months, while we were walking Mojo and our new addition, Billie the cairn terrier. Strangley enough, we'd see her with some of the more "colorful" characters from the hood, including the illustrious and self-proclaimed "Froggie," a neighborhood drunk. Froggie was called "Froggie" because of his distinctive "froggy" voice that would be recognized from over a block away. Now, Froggie was what you'd call a nice drunk- he was not really to be feared, more to be pitied. He was like an old world drunk, friendly with everyone, holding his heart, telling me that "his heart stopped beating" when I walked by because of "my beauty." Now, who really minds this sort of thing? He was not only flattering, he was funny as well. if I was going to hang out at the park with a drunk, I would pick Froggie myself. But still, we worried about Frankie, not that is was any of our business.
Sometime after that, I saw her again in the morning going to work and she told me she was headed to work too- she'd got a job as a nanny. And we'd see her over the summers at the park with some unsavory yet not violent type characters and with Frankie sometimes playing with other kids in the park. He'd run up and pet Mojo and Billie and show his friends the dogs and then run off. Sometimes, I thought I saw a bit of shame as he got older and more aware, but I honestly am not sure what it was I saw. Sometimes, I'd see her on Morse with or without Frankie and occasionally she'd ask me for a dollar, though not very often and only when she was without Frankie.
After a few years, Froggie had disappeared to a different street I think (Morse Avenue was probably not kind to him with all the drug dealers over there) and I noticed her always around with this one Rasta guy, who was always around during the day. He evidently did not have a job and seemed to be living with her and Frankie. I heard that he was living there from someone I knew who lived in her building. Incidentally, she lived in an apartment building about half a block up the street from us. It was a nice building and nice people lived there. I say this, because we do have a few more problem buildings on the block and it was nice to see she didn't live in them for hers and Frankie's sake.
Sometimes, when she asked me for money, I wanted to ask her what her deal was, was she doing drugs? She was obviously a bright woman, attractive and she had to be a good person to have this great friendly polite child. But then she was hanging out with fringe people. I admit I was afraid to ask, because I didn't know what her problems were and I am not a social worker and am untrained in helping people. I am just a person who cares about other people and is touched by their difficulties, especially when you see them and speak to them all the time. I don't ever want to close my heart off and not care about people in that way. That's how people in the suburbs get I think, because they don't live with any poor folks, who eat ramen soup for dinner every day because that's all they can afford. Maybe I can't fix their problems, but the least I can do is give a damn.
She also had this crazy brother, who fell more into the mean drunk category. Actually sometimes he'd be nice, but sometimes he'd be belligerant. I am pretty sure he was her brother, but again I can't be totally certain as the word on the street is not always accurate. We had one incident with this guy involving him being drunk off his ass on a Saturday morning at 10am and telling us, as we repaired our fence, that we were doing it all wrong. Steve gets a little irritable when doing home repairs at times and subsequently told him to fuck off, which led to him threatening Steve that he had a gun and would shoot him, which led to us calling the police, who told us the guy was harmless, just drunk and that was when we found out that he was her brother- or at least he said he was. We've seen him since as he's a regular around here, and he thankfully does not appear to remember the incident. Fun in the hood- what can I say?
After a while, they seemed to move away from our sphere and we'd see her and Frankie across the street or down the block, but not really close enough to say hello. Frankie didn't seem as interested in our dogs and we were busy with the home remodeling projects that have consumed our life over the past three years. One day, Steve came in from outside and mentioned that he had seen her and that he said hi, but he thought she didn't hear him and kind of looked at him funny, like he snubbed her or something. Shortly after that, I saw her as I was coming home and she said, "Hey what's wrong with your man? I said hi to him and he just ignored me." I told her, "He told me he saw you the other day, and he thought you looked at him funny. He just speaks quietly sometimes. Just ignore him." She went on her way, and it was a friendly exchange.
The next time I recall talking to her was a beautiful fall day and we had the dogs with us. Frankie stopped and pet them and his Mom said, "You guys- I just love you guys. I had a problem..." and I was bracing myself because I was afraid she was going to ask us for money and I wasn't sure how Steve would react and I didn't want anything unpleasant to happen in front of Frankie. She was at a loss for words it seemed and she asked Frankie, "What is it I had Frankie?" And he said "a stroke." We were really shocked and concerned and expressed it to her immediately, "Oh my gosh, when was that? and Are you okay? and We hope you feel better soon." She had tears in her eyes and said "I just love you guys, you guys are great." and she kind of slurred her words a bit. I may have given her a hug, I can't remember. We went inside and we were both affected and concerned about her and Frankie. She was only in her 30's, or at least that is what she looked to be. And Frankie's Dad, he didn't seem to be in the picture at all that we had seen. I hoped the best for them.
After that, I may have given her a dollar here and there and I saw her on Morse, up to what looked like no good, hanging out a bit on the corner. I prayed she wasn't doing anything more than helping deliver drugs for her Rasta guy. Frankie was growing up and he had to help look out for his Mom too. At least the guys she hung out with weren't gang types, just fringe characters. In my wilder days, I have spent time with a bit more fringe characters, who sold pot for example, and my opinion is that just because someone deals some drugs, does not make them a bad person. There are some really good hearted people that get mixed up in drugs and not all of them become amoral and evil. This is not to say that drugs are good or even ok in my opinion. I really don't think they do alot of good, mostly they harm people and take away from life. But there are degrees in everything.
The next time we spoke was also the last time we saw them. It was early January -very cold and snowing lightly. We were all bundled up in puffy coats and snow pants walking back a supply run from Clark-Devon Hardware. She saw us walking up and said, "You guys, I'm leaving!" We looked and saw the station wagon loaded up with stuff and the Rasta man standing beside her. He said, "Her brother (a different brother than the drunk one) is taking her back to Alabama, where her family is." I said, "Well, sometimes it's good to go back to family." Steve said, "We heard your building was going condo too." This was true, everyone had to move out and maybe the financial strain and her health issues were just too much to handle. Tears were streaming down her face and I was again, really moved by her open show of emotion. I said to her, "God bless and we'll miss seeing you guys." I gave her a hug and said bye to Frankie. We saw her brother getting in the driver's side and he looked a little stern I thought. Maybe the family was bailing her out and it was a strain on them.
It was very cold and after saying good bye we walked up the street to our house. With a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes as well as Steve's, I said a silent prayer for her and Frankie.
Friday, February 25, 2005
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Crocus rising
It's Thursday- you know day before Friday- and I saw some little crocus heads popping out of the frozen earth! It was also light at 5:30pm today-what a world. We are dog-sitting my Dad's two border collies this week and with our two little ones (Billie the cairn terrier and Mojo the dachshund) we have our hands full.
Billie is quite a little territorial terrier it seems and doesn't want to lose any of her power in the house- minute though it may be! Fortunately, when she gets herself into an scrap, she's so small you can just scoop her up and away from danger.
Anyway, Steve's at the wood shop in Lincoln Park making brackets for our kitchen shelving. The electrician is coming Saturday-yayaya! I am too tired to take the tub of dishes down to the basement and wash them, but maybe I'll do it anyway before The Apprentice comes on. I can't wait to see my tulips come up...in a few months.
Billie is quite a little territorial terrier it seems and doesn't want to lose any of her power in the house- minute though it may be! Fortunately, when she gets herself into an scrap, she's so small you can just scoop her up and away from danger.
Anyway, Steve's at the wood shop in Lincoln Park making brackets for our kitchen shelving. The electrician is coming Saturday-yayaya! I am too tired to take the tub of dishes down to the basement and wash them, but maybe I'll do it anyway before The Apprentice comes on. I can't wait to see my tulips come up...in a few months.
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thanks for going through the list to give original titles. i've done a little research to see what's in there that's potentially of interest to me - about five titles, i think. not that difficult to get the japanese text once i know what the film actually is ... ! glad to see sato and hasebe appear in here, and a few or more long-requested titles from those that have developed a more knowledgeable taste in RP.HungFist wrote:Sundance from Rock Shock Pop forums sent me a few corrections:HungFist wrote: ???
A Nun's Diary: Confession: Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession (1976) ???
True Story of a Prostitute: Tears: Gypsy Rose: A Docu-Drama (1974) ???
A Nun's Diary: Confession: Wet & Rope (1979)
True Story of a Prostitute: Tears: True Story of a woman in Soapland: Tear! (1987)
still not sure i like the selection process and the way they're handled. there seems to be runs of sequels for films which were not certainly of interest to buyers in their earlier titles. could do with trailers in advance, too. surprisingly hard to find people willing to stock them, even with altered titles, for us folk that are buying from abroad - not even amazon listings seem forthcoming any more.


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Next week's theme is a good one: Guilty Pleasure Movies. We had some internal discussion about the definition of a guilty pleasure movie, and as usual in such cases, Emma hit the nail on the head:
"To me, they are movies that you enjoy but CAN'T really defend. A guilty pleasure is a movie that you would NOT have in your DVD collection. I don't own Deep Blue Sea and wouldn't buy it. But whenever it's on TV, I watch-even though I must've seen it about four times by now, which is three and a half more viewings than it deserves."
The general consensus was that the movie has to be bad in order to qualify, but that doesn't really matter to me. A movie can be well-made and still be a guilty pleasure for me. Like Boogie Nights or Rushmore or True Romance, Sleepless in Seattle, even, those are guilty pleasures for me because overall I really don't like the filmmakers and enjoy not liking them. So to admit that I can actually watch something by them and even enjoy it, that's guilt, Dog.
Or self-loathing, or something warped like that. And has nothing to do with the artistic quality of the filmmaking, because like them or not, PT Anderson, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, are skilled and talented guys.
But if I had to pick a scrubby movie as a guilty pleasure–resisting like all hell not to choose something starring Chris Makepeace–I think this one will do just fine.
Should be a fun week. Let's all have a laugh, shall we?


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MOST of the money invested in a failed Icelandic bank by Thames Valley Police has been recouped.
Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld said £4.8m of £5m had been returned.
Icelandic banks collapsed in 2008 and local authorities and other public bodies which invested in them have been trying to get their money back ever since.
The force has now sold its claim against the insolvent estate of the Icelandic bank, Landsbanki Islands.


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Why should onions and shrimp have all the fun? Maybe chicken wants to bathe in Egg Beaters, roll around in Fiber One crumbs and bake to a mouthwatering crunch, too! Woohoo -- it's yet another fake-fried swap from your pal HG. Skeptics surrender; buy a box of Fiber One and blend it up, already! Then fool the family, dupe your date, and more importantly, trick your OWN tastebuds!
6 oz. Tyson (or another brand**) Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts (raw); cut lengthwise into 5 strips
1/2 cup Fiber One Original bran cereal
1/4 cup Egg Beaters Original
1/4 tsp. Lawry's Garlic Salt
pepper (to taste)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Using a blender or food processor, grind Fiber One cereal to a breadcrumb-like consistency. Add Garlic Salt and pepper to crumbs. Place crumbs in one small dish and Egg Beaters in another. Next, coat raw chicken strips with egg substitute and then with crumb mixture. Place strips on a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray. Spray a light mist of nonstick spray on top of strips and place in oven. Cook for 10 minutes, and then turn strips over. Add another light mist of nonstick spray and cook for an additional 8 - 10 minutes (until chicken is fully cooked and Fiber One looks crispy). Enjoy! Serves 1.
Serving Size: 5 pieces (entire recipe)
Calories: 240
Fat: 3.25g
Sodium: 805mg
Carbs: 26g
Fiber: 14g
Sugars: 0.5g
Protein: 42.5g
PointsPlus® value 6*
Serving Size: 5 pieces
Calories: 670
Fat: 39g
Sodium: 1,660mg
Carbs: 42g
Fiber: 0g
Sugars: n/a
Protein: 37g
PointsPlus® value 18*


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After noticing that a cool three million people were playing Wooga's gem clicker Diamond Dash on Facebook, reader Juan Aponte sent along a little program he created to 'assist' players in achieving ridiculously high scores. I'm not going to give it out, but I'll show you what it does.
Cheating at Diamond Dash is nothing new, thanks in no small part to the social game's click-friendly design. The player has to click groups of colored blocks in order to eliminate them from the board, making way for new blocks. The key is there is no penalty for incorrect clicks, so creating a program that randomly clicks across the game board (90 clicks per 50 milliseconds) does devastating things.
Compared to some of the other Diamond Dash cheats out there, Juan's is rather primitive—it doesn't even automatically stop, which can lead to opening 200 Internet Explorer windows and having to reboot (oops). What it does do is show us how easy it is to screw with social games of this ilk. Juan isn't a hardcore player, he just had some friends that played the game and wanted to mess with their heads. You can imagine what the people that care about their leaderboard position have come up with.


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Stephen Innes to Laura R. Dorman, 2.205 acres at 1774 Dudley Mountain Road, $199,000.
Joseph H. and Diane S. Cobb to Peter M. and Laura E. Thomas, 9.7442 acres in White Hall, $190,000.
McFarland Group Inc. to Michael J. and Victoria M. Danilich, 2.343 acres at 1946 Bentivar Farm Road, $515,000.
Jason R. Meyers to Adam Q. and Karen D. Carlson, 112 Mansfield Court, Sherwood Manor, $122,900.
John Q. Wagner to William M. and Kelley V. Hunt, 4874 Three Notch'd Road, Crozet, $300,000.
John P. Walker to Stephen C. Innes, 1467 Glenside Green, LeParc, RiverRun, $195,200.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Maria Piazza, 3395 Turnberry Circle, Springridge at Forest Lakes, $272,500.
TSRM Group LLC to Timothy P. and Abigail C. McConnell, 2336 Ravenswood Court, Ravenswood, $203,000.
Steven I. or Joanne M. Blum to Melanie L. Benjamin, 1698 Royal Oak Court, Mill Creek, $184,000.
Daniel C. and Teresa L. Lindsey to Brent and Jonathan B. Shealy, 1702 Bent Tree Court, Mill Creek, $204,900.
Weather Hill Homes Ltd. to Emil Elizabeth F. Groth, 3015 Indigo Road, Parkside Village, $300,000.
Albemarle Hotel LLC to Sandav LLC, 1.712 acre on Route 250, $1,490,000.
John G. Desmond, Trustee, to Christopher and Laura Cook, 2011 Kemper Lane, Rivercreek of Dunlora, $384,950.
Christopher L. and Shelby D. Bowen to Bessie E. Eubanks, 2350 Austin Drive, Briarwood, $149,000.
Joseph N. Johnson to George M. and Barbara C. Henry, 240 Homestead Lane, Mill Creek, $263,500.
Christopher J. and Amanda Robinette to Brian M. and Trisha D. Trotta, 4704 Bluejay Way, Briarwood, $162,900.
Michelle M. and Joseph C. English III to Mark D. and Valeria P. Niehaus, 3001 Copper Knoll Road, Forest Lakes, $278,500.
William J. and Nancy M. Walworth to Hyon Sik and Un Suk Kang, 1671 Empress Place, Forest Lakes South, $297,000.
Kimberly N. and James B. Spence III to Holmes C. Brown and Margaret A. Shaker, 2.0 acres at 6933 Wishing Meadow Lane, Afton, $410,000.
Craig Enterprises to Ron L. and Nancy Pruitt, 304 Grayrock Drive, Grayrock, $300,589.
Betty L. Bollendorf, Trustee, to Maurice J. and Elizabeth N. Davis, 5.790 acres on State Route 797, 6338 Hillsboro Lane, Crozet, $397,500.
Page E. Vanischak to Christopher L. and Shelby D. Bowen, 1019 Highland Drive, Highlands at Mechums River, $190,000.
Dale B. and Heather H. Freix to James G. and Susan B. Kalergis, 2604 Commonwealth Drive, $190,000.
Carol T. Merica to Karen P. Organ, 312 Glade Lane, Townwood, $134,900.
Alfonso J. Martinez to Linda Ann Ferguson, 2220 Hummingbird Lane, Briarwood, $184,900.
Stephen T. Warner to Brian J. Flamm and Christina B. Andersen, 1320 Pin Oak Court, Oak Forest, $182,000.
Charles William Hurt Jr., Trustee, to Fieldstone Builders Inc., 3.204 acres in Tanager Woods, White Hall, $115,000.
K. Victoria and Thomas W. Gilliam III to Katherine Mitchell-Parker, 2580 Cedar Ridge Lane, West Woods, $377,000.
Steven G. Friedman and Tara Leigh O'Keefe to Mark T. and Nancy L. Coleman 1019 Stirling Court, LeParc, RiverRun, $191,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to John N. Ohlweiler, 1178 Rustic Willow Lane, Forest Lakes, $207,839.
Walker T. Willoughby to Sandra W. Draper, 4.41 acres in Scottsville district, gift.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Melissa D. Hornidge, 1176 Rustic Willow Lane, $205,999.
JaZan LLC to Anthony J. Viola and Jennifer Steben, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $88,000.
William E. and Lori W. Hopkinson to David Perry, 530 Stonefield Circle, Earlysville, $230,000.
Brenda J. Hogan to Derek H. and Mary K. Taylor Coombs, 101 Blithe Court, Birnam Wood, $158,500.
William E. and Carolyn P. Haines to John C. and Barbara B. Seidler, 516-C Worthington Drive, Ednam, $430,000.
Mary Laura Maxwell to Kimberly H. and John A. Skinner Jr., 122 Running Fox Court, Foxcroft, $279,900.
Paul T. and Emily L. Bray to Melissa D. and John Peter Leiher, 4743 Bluejay Way, Briarwood, $179,000.
Jack G. Steinberg and Theresa A. McClanahan to Arlene M. Estrada, 206 Pineridge Lane, Terrybrook, $220,000.
Leah C. Warren to Kent C. Dohrman, 1347 LeParc Terrace, RiverRun, $179,000.
Brian R. and Laura Brooks to Henry A. Williamson, 2.75 acres at 6190 Monacan Trail, Covesville, $168,000.
Jennetta M. and Thomas E. Maupin to Sinisa, Nebojsha, and Marija Grbic, 103 Wakefield Court, Wakefield, $188,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to John and Lee Anne Battiston, 2490 Wiltshire Close, Glenmore, $757,000.
MGR Development Corp. to Nancy J. Grable, Trustee, 1773 Verona Drive, Fontana, $309,000.
Mona W. and Mona T. Beard, Trustees, to Dori S. Rockefeller, unit in University Village condominiums, 500 Crestwood Drive, $260,000.
Jess M. and Amy C. Parr to Hari K. and Mythri Narasimhamurthy, lot in Grayrock, $249,000.
John J. and Alice Harrigan to Jason A. Lyman and Kristen A. Atkins, 3550 Montgomery Lane, Langford, $499,000.
Joseph K. and Patricia L. Moore to Brenda J. Hogan and Laszlo Melan, 2800 Commonwealth Lane, Berkeley, $254,500.
Belvedere Station Land Trust to Robert Hauser Homes, Inc., parcel in Rivercrest at Dunlora, $464,494.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Willow Bend, Forest Lakes, $89,077.
Scott H. and Julianne F. Jones to R. Thomas and Tonia L. Leonard, 1512 Cherry Bark Lane, Teakwood Forest, $294,000.
Norman Graebner to Molly J. S. Osborne, Trustee, lot in Ednam Village, $435,000.
David A. and Elizabeth L. Carter to David G. Moyer and Rebecca C. George, 2303 Williamsburg Road, Berkeley, $178,900.
Robert L. and Dolores G. Mack to Shelly A. Dale, 4696 Watts Passage, $85,000.
Charlynn E. Settlage to John R. and Daniele P. Ottinger, 2.4 acres at 7380 Gordonsville Road, $265,000.
Charles F. and William F. Taylor to Troy A. and Lynn T. Leathers, 2.003 acres at Harris Road, gift.
Jane E. Gabler to Rahul Poonam R. Sharma, 221 Buttercup Lane, Lake Reynovia, $183,000.
Christopher M. Johns to John C. Sherry, 1139 Somerchase Court, Hollymead Townhouses, $190,500.
R. D. Wade Builder Inc. to John D. Paula A. Zero, 356 Pleasant Place, Forest Lakes, $299,950.
John Okaah Yvonne S. Okyere to Angel M. and Maria Elena Zometa Sr., 2304 Williamsburg Road, Berkeley, $187,500.
Joshua P. Rogan to Charles C. Webb, Trustee, 94.298 acres, $250,000.
James L. Jennifer J. McCaskill to Jeffrey P. and Angela G. Shifflett to 2329 Davis Shop Road, Earlysville, $214,000.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to Scott M. Keplinger, lot in Glenmore, $162,000.
Donald G. and Carol H. Turner to Najib C. and Najwa Jarjour, 937 Devon Spring Court, Redfields, $205,500.
Roy F. Skogen to Suzanne C. and James L. Matthews III, 2609 Huntington Road, Northfields, $229,000.
Olga M. and Vladimir G. Dolgolenko to James L. and Cheryl T. Hale, 3116 Beaumont Farm Road, Beaumont Farm, $649,900.
Betty S. and Michael S. Thurston to Nicholas E. Peregoy and Jenna C. Goolsby, 4.427 acres in Scottsville, $136,900.
Irvin R. Lepow to Patricia J. Lepow, 5281 Sugar Ridge Road, Crozet, gift.
David P. Peterson to William M. Wood, 2.080 acres on State Route 629, $90,000.
J. Barbara Titone and Sophia Knolling to Kenneth S. and Arlene R. Buynak, 2325 Finch Court, Briarwood, $116,000.
Thomas E. and Jo Ann
Healey to Robert K. and Trudi A. Darradji, 2159 Forsythia Lane, North Pines, $205,001.
Christian M. Loch to Mary L. Lang, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $109,500.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to John R. and Kelly L. Nicholson, 830 Summit View Lane, Cory Farm, $274,950.
Charles C. and Renee B. Poche to Otavio R. and Cassandra D. Freire, 1119 Cottonwood Court, $186,500.
Steven D. and Barbara L. Kornhauser to William H. and Kathryn D. Erskine, 1016 Blackburn Bluff, Dunlora, $427,000.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Patricia A. Vandever, 2062 Weatherwood Drive, Springridge at Forest Lakes, $174,950.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to John and Lee Anne Battiston, 2490 Wiltshire Close, Glenmore, $757,000.


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Good Coverage of AG Holder's War on Guns
As I said earlier this week, Eric Holder's push for an "assault weapons" ban is a misguided policy that will not have any serious impact on Mexican drug cartels. It really ought to be called a "ban on semi‐automatic firearms with politically incorrect cosmetic features," but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. I am pleased to see that CNN is providing coverage of this that notes (1) the difference between semi‐automatic sporting arms and machine guns and (2) that Mexican authorities are not releasing the serial numbers of firearms seized from the gangsters. This is probably because many of these guns are coming from the Mexican government, not American gun stores. The drug cartels are putting up billboards to recruit soldiers and policemen as hired muscle. Don't be surprised when they walk off the job with the guns you issued them, and don't shift the blame to the Second Amendment.


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St. Francis House is a multi-service day shelter located in the heart of Boston that provides basic services including food, clothing, daytime shelter and access to medical care and rehabilitative services. Other services include legal aid, a women's center, counseling and mental health services, job skills training and transitional and permanent housing.
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It's unclear if "Cajun Justice" will continue after next week's season finale, but the Terrebonne Parish sheriff said it won't feature his deputies.
It's unclear if "Cajun Justice" will continue after next week's season finale, but the Terrebonne Parish sheriff said it won't feature his deputies.
The A&E reality show about the Sheriff's Office is scheduled to air the final episode of the season Aug. 16.
As promised, Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said he has repeatedly turned down offers to continue the program. One offer was for $10,000 an episode, up from $1,500 per episode that former Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois was paid, Larpenter said.
Neither the show's producers nor A&E publicists could be reached to confirm if next week's episode will be the end of "Cajun Justice."
Larpenter said he spoke with producers before taking office last month but has not talked to them since.
"I think the show is ridiculous and disrespectful to the people of this parish," he said. "Why would I even think about it?"
Echoing many in the parish, Larpenter has said even before it premiered that he did not approve of the show. Now that several episodes have aired — the 18th episode premieres tonight — he said his suspicions have been confirmed.
There's no way he will ever allow that program to continue using his office's resources, he said.
"It really doesn't portray the truth of our office, and I wouldn't do that," he said. "I wouldn't fabricate lies."
Larpenter has said he doesn't believe the $1,500 per episode that producers paid the office covered the expenses for the show.
"(Producers) used our gas, equipment and manpower to go film all over the place. ...The ones who got shafted are the taxpayers of Terrebonne Parish," he said.
Taxpayers had to pay a $1,000 deductible after a deputy wrecked a patrol car while staging a scene for the show.
No offer to continue "Cajun Justice" would have been worth it because the show likely has a detrimental effect on tourism, Larpenter added.
Ventura, Calif., resident Carol Mirassou, 56, said she had been planning a trip to south Louisiana in conjunction with a trip to Galveston, Texas. Watching an episode of "Cajun Justice," however, gave her pause.
"I decided that although I knew some of the show was scripted, your part of the world creeped me out," said Mirassou, who spoke by phone from her Ventura residence Wednesday. "It was bad enough to think about how many people around me were most likely packing (guns), and so I decided to stay at our beach house and not go investigating into Louisiana. The thought of running into toothless, cackling Cajuns was too much for me."
Mirassou said her husband works in the film business and pointed to many scenes he thought were staged.
"I'm not saying that your area is as it was depicted in the show," Mirassou said. "However, it does make your area appear to be very backwards. That sheriff kept implying that the law was to be interpreted as he pleased."
Mirassou's daughter Shannon Robinson, 28, agreed that the casual tone deputies took with people accused of committing crimes worried her. Deputies might not take her family seriously if they had to call 911, Robinson said.
However, Robinson said she suspected deputies were as casual as they were because they may have done a certain film take several times already.
"We all agree that the show makes your parish look bad," Mirassou said, referring to herself, her husband and her daughter.
A Houma Area Convention and Visitors Bureau official said she has not gotten much feedback, good or bad, from tourists about "Cajun Justice."
"There are a couple of people that have seen the show, who have mentioned it in conversation," said spokeswoman Kelly Gustafson. "It's not necessarily the reason people visit the area."
The comments she does hear are usually along the lines of, "Oh, Houma. That's the place in 'Cajun Justice,'" Gustafson said.
"Given the short span that it's been on, I don't think you'll see an overall effect," she said. "We're just now seeing the effects of 'Swamp People,' and that's been on for three seasons."
Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Some magnets and collectibles buildings from Finland, Sweden and Denmark, as well as lot of great resin magnets from Ukraine!
07 Sep 2020: Some magnets and collectibles buildings from Finland, Sweden and Denmark, as well as lot of great resin magnets from Ukraine!
New kitchen towels and iron-on patches in our store!
10 Aug 2020: There are four very nice towels (linen & cotton) as well as two iron-on embroidered patches! Welcome!
Map Magnets from Serbia, Curacao, Romania, Estonia, Taiwan, Oman, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, and Kenya
01 Aug 2020: Nine new metal magnet maps: Serbia, Curacao, Romania, Estonia, Taiwan, Oman, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, and Kenya!
Map Magnets from Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovakia, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Tanzania, Nepal, El Salvador, Belize, and Mozambique
23 Jun 2020: Ten new metal magnet maps: Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovakia, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Tanzania, Nepal, El Salvador, Belize, and Mozambique!
Map Magnets from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, French Polynesia, Mongolia, Mauritius, Angola, Guatemala, and Honduras
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Traveling around the world is exciting and fun in its own right, but it is also pleasant to bring back some souvenirs that will remind you of the new places you have seen. Finding something small and inexpensive, but expressive of the foreign countries you visited, is a great way to preserve your memories or give your relatives a distinctive gift.
However, you can usually only buy souvenirs in countries you actually visit. And wouldn't it be disappointing to return home and discover you had forgotten to buy any mementos at all? Fortunately, this isn't an issue anymore! The Internet has opened up the possibility of buying global souvenirs from the comfort of your home, and lets you get something special regardless of where and when you've journeyed abroad.
Tourism and Souvenirs
Tourism is one of the major pleasures of modern times, expanding the mind and giving us fresh perspectives on life, the world we live in, and our own home country, too. How, you might ask, is "tourism" really defined? One common definition that fits very well is "traveling and staying abroad for up to a year in places outside your everyday environment".
Tourism offers variety, excitement, and fresh discoveries, so it is no wonder that most people participate in this activity to relax and enjoy some time for recreation. Sightseeing everything from interesting architectural monuments, historical sites, and modern marvels, to such jewels of Nature as the pristine Costa Rican rainforest or the icy majesty of Mount Everest is one of the major factors luring people abroad to visit unfamiliar countries and cities.
Tourism became popular (and possible) among the mass of the population during the last century, and its growth continues vigorously today – at up to 5% or 6% annually. The World Tourism Organization reports that as much as $1 trillion is spent annually by international tourists. France, Italy, the United States, China, and Spain are the countries most frequently visited by foreign tourists, while tourists from Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and France are the biggest spenders when abroad.
One of the industries supported by tourism is the souvenir industry. Naturally enough, every traveler wants a tangible reminder of their tourist experiences and enjoyment, and the best way to achieve this is to buy souvenirs. You can choose from many different kinds of souvenirs, ranging from mass produced kitsch to unique handmade items – all of which are small, portable, and easy for the traveler to collect and carry home with them.
What Kinds of Souvenirs can You Buy?
To be a proper souvenir, an item needs to have a strong, visible association with the place where it is bought. Souvenirs often bear the image of famous buildings, natural landmarks, statues, or other noteworthy features of the city or country they come from. They are usually specially made to be collectible, and are typically inexpensive so that every tourist has the opportunity to buy and enjoy them.
While it is true that you can easily purchase some eye-catching souvenirs when you are in another country that you are traveling to, it might seem quite a bit harder to do so while you are still at home. This is where our collection enters the picture – we offer you the chance to buy excellent souvenirs from every country of the globe without needing to leave your apartment or house!
What type of items make the best souvenirs? Clothing gives you a wearable way to show off your international experience, whether it takes the form of t-shirts, caps, or wristwatches. Collectible items like refrigerator magnets, postcards, or small prints let you display images of the places you've been. Mugs and plates can be placed decoratively on a shelf, or used as practical household items.
Refrigerator magnets (or "fridge magnets" as they're familiarly known in English-speaking countries) stand out from the rest both because there's a place for these souvenirs in almost every house, and because you will see them daily and be reminded of your travels! They are also practically useful for holding important notes and reminders where you'll see them every time you go to get food during the day.
Statistics tell us that there are refrigerator magnets in 80% of the kitchens in developed countries. These small but attractive emblems are a great way to symbolize the places you've been – or the spots you want to go! By reminding you of your tourism goals, they can even help fulfill your dreams of worldwide travel!
Fridge Magnets, Keychains, Plates, and More
Refrigerator magnets are extremely popular tourist knickknacks – in fact, they have even made an entry in the famous Guinness Book of World Records, which notes that the largest known collection of these souvenirs is close to 20,000 items!
Fridge magnets made in a recognizable three-dimensional shape (such as the outline of a country or the simplified facade of a famous building like the Eiffel Tower in Paris or St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow), or fashioned to resemble a geographical map of the place they come from, are the most frequently collected of all.
Keychains are the small chains that feature a decorative "finding" at one end and a ring to keep your car, house, and mailbox keys at the other end. Today, there are many variants on the basic keychain, including versions that feature flashlights, compasses, bottle openers, multitools, USB flash drives, scissors, and, of course, worldwide souvenirs. Keychains are highly popular as tourism souvenirs and a reminder of exotic shores and faraway places.
A keychain is also a perfect gift for your friends and colleagues, sparking interesting discussions about your journey. Nearly everyone needs a keychain or two, also, so the gift will not sit idly in a drawer after being given. When fashioned as a souvenir, a keychain is inexpensive, yet tells an adventurous tale about the places you have been. They are bought almost as frequently as refrigerator magnets.
Souvenir plates have a somewhat different story – and a longer history. Fine Chinese porcelain first reached Europe in the 14th century, and because of its rarity and exotic decoration, it was extremely expensive. At that time and up through the end of the 18th century, only rich nobles, merchants, and clergymen could afford to decorate their homes with porcelain plates.
At the end of this period, however, mass production of good porcelain began in Europe, allowing people from all walks of life to enjoy these relatively inexpensive, locally made items. Most plates featured decorative scenes rendered in blue and white.
Today, with the power of modern materials technology, souvenir plates are not limited to porcelain. Glass, wood, plastic, resin, and various metals are all highly popular materials for plates to be made out of, too, so that you can match the look of the plate to your decor. Many people are avid collectors of these items and display their plates on special shelves or wall hangers.
Our site is crammed with exciting, intriguing worldwide souvenirs selected specially for you! You can discover fridge magnets, plates, t-shirts, keychains, and a wealth of other colorful international items here. You can rest assured that we haven't overlooked any country or any part of the globe in our quest to bring you the best assortment of souvenirs on the Internet. Welcome to the unforgettable worldwide travel scene on world-wide-gifts.com!


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Hope College honored faculty members for service, academic achievement and professional involvement during the college's annual recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 10.
Hope College honored faculty members for service, academic achievement and professional involvement during the college's annual recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 10.
The luncheon traditionally marks the beginning of the college's second semester. Participating were James Bultman, president; Richard Ray, provost; Moses Lee, dean for the natural and applied sciences; Caroline Simon, interim dean for the social sciences; and William Reynolds, dean for the arts and humanities.
Recognized for 40 years of service were Bill Mungall (chemistry) and Bill Reynolds (dean for the arts and humanities). Honored for 35 years of service was Susan Cherup (education). Recognized for 25 years of service were Jim Allis (philosophy), Dean Kreps (kinesiology), Greg Murray (biology) and Kathy Winnett-Murray (biology). Honored for 20 years of service were Michelle Bombe (theatre), David O'Brien (Van Wylen Library) and Daina Robins (theatre). Adjunct or part-time faculty recognized for 20 years of service were Bob Ebels (kinesiology) and Lee Schopp (kinesiology).
Named a "Towsley Research Scholar" was Ernest Cole (English). The "Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards" were presented to Tom Smith (economics, management and accounting) and Jeff Tyler (religion). The "Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards" were presented to Annie Dandavati (political science) and Chuck Green (psychology). The "Academic Computing Advisory Team (ACAT) Innovation Award" was presented to Susan Cherup (education). The "Provost's Awards for Service to the Academic Program" were presented to Mary Inman (psychology) and David Klooster (English).
Faculty honored for serving on the college's Teaching Enhancement Workshop Committee were: Debra Swanson (sociology, and committee director); Christopher Barney (biology); Lorna Hernandez Jarvis (psychology); and Barbara Mezeske (English).
Jesse Montaño (English) was recognized for having received the 2010 Hope Outstanding Professor Educator (H.O.P.E.) Award.
Acknowledged as authors and editors during the past year were: Claudine André (Spanish), Albert Bell (history), Steven Bouma-Prediger (religion), David Cho (English), Andrew Dell'Olio (philosophy), Jack Holmes (political science), Mike Jipping (computer science), Fred Johnson (history), Jack Mulder (philosophy), David Myers (psychology), Jacob Nyenhuis (A.C. Van Raalte Institute), Jeanne Petit (history), David Ryden (political science), Heather Sellers (English), Caroline Simon (interim dean for the social sciences), Steve Smith (kinesiology) and Robert Swierenga (A.C. Van Raalte Institute).
Honored for accomplishment as performing artists were: Jean Bahle (theatre), Michelle Bombe (theatre), Mihai Craioveanu (music), Alicia Diaz (dance), Steven Iannacone (dance), Daina Robins (theatre), Steve Talaga (music), John Tammi (theatre) and Matthew Thornton (dance). Members of the art faculty recognized for their work as artists were: Tamara Fox, Billy Mayer, Bruce McCombs, Stephanie Milanowski, Steve Nelson and Katherine Sullivan. Members of the kinesiology faculty and staff honored for accomplishments as coaches were: Brian Morehouse (women's basketball), John Patnott (men's swimming and diving), Becky Schmidt (volleyball) and Steve Smith (men's soccer).
Faculty honored for being named officers of professional associations were: Maxine DeBruyn (dance, emerita) and Jeanne Petit (history).
Faculty and other members of the campus community recognized for receiving honors and awards were: Peter Boumgarden (management), Rhoda Burton (English), Isabelle Chapuis-Alvarez (French), Chuck Green (psychology), Choonghee Han (communication), Anne Larsen (French), Stephen Maiullo (classics), Billy Mayer (art), Stephanie Milanowski (art), Lindsay Montgomery (art), David Myers (psychology), Graham Peaslee (chemistry, and geological and environmental sciences), Richard Ray (provost), Gloria Tseng (history), Scott VanderStoep (psychology) and Barbara Vincensi (nursing). In addition, the Children's After School Achievement (CASA) program was recognized for having received Michigan's "Outstanding Mentoring Program Award" through the 2010 Governor's Service Award program.
Several faculty and staff were recognized as recipients of grants and fellowships: Claudine André (Spanish), Brian Bodenbender (geology), Annie Dandavati (political science), Herb Dershem (computer science), Paul DeYoung (physics), Maureen Dunn (kinesiology), Jane Finn (education), Greg Fraley (biology), Janis Gibbs (history), Jason Gillmore (chemistry), Peter Gonthier (physics), Linda Graham (dance), Virgil Gulker (Center for Faithful Leadership), Jonathan Hagood (history), Brigitte Hamon-Porter (French), Jenny Hampton (physics), Kim Hawtrey (economics), Jim Herrick (communication), Rob Hodson (music), Vicki-Lynn Holmes (mathematics and education), Kelly Jacobsma (Van Wylen library), Mike Jipping (computer science), Jeff Johnson (chemistry), David Klooster (English), Brent Krueger (chemistry), Cathy Mader (physics), Greg Murray (biology), Mark Pearson (mathematics), Graham Peaslee (chemistry, and geological and environmental sciences), Tim Pennings (mathematics), Jon Peterson (geological and environmental sciences), Jeanne Petit (history), Stephen Remillard (physics), Geoffrey Reynolds (Joint Archives of Holland), Heather Sellers (English), Joanne Stewart (chemistry), Deborah Sturtevant (sociology and social work), Vicki Ten Haken (management), Steve VanderVeen (Center for Faithful Leadership) and Barbara Vincensi (nursing). In addition, the departments of music and theatre were recognized for receiving support from the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music for their fall production of the opera "Street Scene," and Hope overall was recognized for continuing to hold more grants for summer collaborative-faculty student research from the National Science Foundation than any other undergraduate college in the country.